This is emotionally so strong, and the end is just incredibly beautiful. This is the first episode in this show so far that's made me cry. It's just beautifully sad.
What a terrible b---- slap of a f--- you to all those who've watched this show for over seven years. This is an insult. Starf----inglight? Even within this two part steaming piece of of the most base, boorish and festering manipulative s--t, the writing couldn't remain consistent, tie up any loose ends or explain anything.
As always, this episode retcons, yet again, the same worn path leading nowhere that viewers have tread time and time again. The worst of the worst.
F--- you, C-----. You're a hack a------ who got lucky and learned nothing other than how to count money and hate those who gave it to him. There may be a conspiracy of dunces involved in the production of this series, but the buck stops with that name.
Those who rated this a 10 or extolled it's virtues - well, I don't want to know you.
Even though I didn't enjoy the closure for Samantha arc, I almost cried in the last 3 minutes.
So she's dead now. But every episode before she was supposedly still alive. This episode is far from closure.
Well, I'm glad this closes the book on Mulder's search for his sister. It was a part of the story arc that always annoyed me in the writers' inability to resolve the mystery. This was a pretty good episode given my dislike of the basis of its story line. The ending was kind of touching.
You won't help it, you won't be able to stop your tears from coming down in this episode specially in the last 3 min
That was as powerful a story as I've seen for the show.
quite a touching and meaningful episode; I recommended a friend of mine who recently lost his sister to check out this show, and I await his reaction once he reaches this episode someday. There's a glimpse of Planet of the Apes in this one. I'm also curious on what music was used during the children scenes.
Review by WardVIP 8BlockedParentSpoilers2023-11-25T12:38:06Z
They happen to find a random killer unrelated to Amber Lynn (with Scully find a location on the map with santa on it?) and the killer turns out to have killed many people but he wasn't the person who took Amber Lynn, even though the note had the santa note on it.
Psychic private detective/guy who helps Mulder... When did the x files become so divorced from it's core values of paranormal abilities with a scientific basis? Not supernatural abilities and religious mythology.
I guess we are led to believe this is actually what happened to Mulder's sister. So cancer man still took her but then she disappeared from a locked room. Maybe the aliens took her? But the woman said she had a vision she was dead. Then it's supposedly confirmed by Mulder that he saw visions of his sister and the other kids dead.
Ugh.
So how did Amber Lynn and Samantha actually get taken then? That killer they caught even had footage of Amber right? But her body wasn't with the others. Why have mothers been mind controlled to write a kidnapper note when their kid is then taken with no evidence they were taken?
It's all visions, apparently. Psychic/religious visions. That's the explanation for everything.
It's a well acted but nonsense melodramatic episode that damages the characters and the mythology. At the very least it gives closure to Mulder's original sister, but in a unsatisfactorily way.